Category: Bucks County Intermediate Unit

Student intern Riley Boyle presents a gift of appreciation to his mentors in the program; Matt Weintraub Esq., Bucks County District Attorney, and Debbie Hubler. District Attorney’s Office Manager.

Project SEARCH Bucks (County) Holds Banquet to Honor Supporters and Participants of the Program’s First Year

Posted onAuthorRobyn Gross

On Tuesday May 31st, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) host­ed a ban­quet to hon­or the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the first year of Project SEARCH Bucks (County), an intern­ship pro­gram for young adults with intel­lec­tu­al and devel­op­men­tal dis­abil­i­ties pro­vid­ing them employ­ment expe­ri­ences through a total immer­sion in the … Read more...

ACRE Assoc of Community Rehabilitation Educators and the Bucks IU

Bucks IU Approved to Train the Trainers

Posted onAuthorRobyn Gross

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) is now cer­ti­fied as one of only three pro­grams in Pennsylvania to pro­vide the Association of Community Rehabilitation Educators (ACRE) competency-based, basic lev­el job train­ing pro­gram. ACRE train­ing is designed for job coach­es, job devel­op­ers, tran­si­tion spe­cial­ists, job place­ment per­son­nel, … Read more...

FablLab center ribbon cutting ceremony

The Bucks IU Celebrates the Grand Opening
of the New Fab Lab Center

Posted onAuthorRobyn Gross

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) is very excit­ed to open a learn­ing cen­ter designed and ded­i­cat­ed to sup­port the grow­ing inter­est in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activ­i­ties in Bucks County. The Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) Center is a bright, invit­ing space cen­tral­ly locat­ed at … Read more...

BrainSTEPS Award Ribbon Graphic

Bucks IU Awarded Inaugural  BrainSTEPS Team Exceptional Performance Award

Posted onAuthorRobyn Gross

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) has been hon­ored with the inau­gur­al BrainSTEPS Team Exceptional Performance Award, dis­tin­guish­ing it as one of only four teams across Pennsylvania—and the sole recip­i­ent in the south­east­ern region of the Commonwealth—to receive this pres­ti­gious recognition.

BrainSTEPS (Strategies Teaching Educators, Parents, and Students) … Read more...

Dr. Mark Hoffman and Board President John D'Angelo speak to those assembled for the awards.

Bucks IU Celebrates our Caring Community Awards

Posted onAuthorRobyn Gross

Each year, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) rec­og­nizes indi­vid­u­als who have made an extra­or­di­nary con­tri­bu­tion of sup­port and assis­tance to Bucks IU pro­grams and stu­dents with a Caring Community Award and celebration.

All Caring Community award win­ners were deliv­ered a per­son­al­ized award cer­tifi­cate by their nom­i­nee along … Read more...

Students work an assembly line to colect itemms for each stocking

2,330 Stockings Completed by Students of the Bucks IU at Samuel Everitt in Their 6th Annual Stockings for Soldiers Program

Posted onAuthorRobyn Gross

Neither rain nor sleet nor lim­i­ta­tions due to a pan­dem­ic will keep the stu­dents of the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) at Samuel Everitt from com­plet­ing their annu­al Stockings for Soldiers pro­gram.  In this 6th year, dona­tions of the var­i­ous items to put into the stock­ings, as … Read more...